Contact Damage

[Koh]

Yeah, it's not a bad mechanic overall. It just leads to some incredibly frustrating moments at times with its presence. For example, you're playing any of the Stiffvanias, and are playing the weave game no problem. Dodging all the projectiles and Medusa Heads or whatever coming at you. Then that one point happens when you jump, successfully dodge one or more projectiles and since you're stuck in that arc until you land, get hurt by something that just so happened to casually end up where your intended point of landing was. Or how about when your character becomes a tennis ball? Small windows of invincibility, such that when you get touched by an enemy and knocked back, you're doomed to take a 2nd or even 3rd hits from other enemies, because you had no reaction frames between the touch damage of each kicking in. Or even worse, in games like Megaman, where stuff flies into the screen without any sort of signal, so that unless you've memorized the level design through trial and error, or just having done it before, you'll take a lot of hits unnecessarily. Gridsnapped games, like the first StarTropics, where you're always sliding around because your character is trying to stay on some invisible grid. Often leads to him sliding right into enemies trying to stay on it, and said enemies are otherwise just standing there or moving at a snail's pace.